29abstracts 581(583):Layout 1 13-07-2012 11:56 Pagina 581 ABSTRACTS 29abstracts 581(583):Layout 1 13-07-2012 11:56 Pagina 582 29abstracts 581(583):Layout 1 13-07-2012 11:56 Pagina 583 Claudia Antonetti AN ITALIOTE IN AMPHILOCHIAN ARGOS Through the analysis of a narrow yet meaningful corpus of funerary inscriptions found in the necropolis of ancient Amphilochian Argos, dating from the 4 th to the 3rd cent. BC, new light can be shed on the relations between this frontier area – surrounded by Epirus and Acarnania – and a broader Hellenic world – at that time the theatre of wide-ranging interventions by basileis and xenikoi strategoi – on both sides of the Ionian Sea: Corcyra, the Adriatic Sea, and the Italiote League. Starting from the first years of the 3 rd cent. BC, the destinies of Am - philochia tightly intertwine with those of Ambracia, the new capital of the reign of Pyrrhus: in the fortunes of this Aeacid king it is to be found the over-regional per - spective the inscriptions show. Keywords: Amphilochian Argos, Pyrrhus, Italiotai, Troias (Aeacid Queen and fe - male name), Ambracia. Benedetto Carroccio THE MONETARIAN IMPACT OF EPIRUS, CORCYRA, ALEXANDER THE MOLOSSIAN AND PYRRHUS IN THE WEST, BETWEEN ASCERTAINED FACTS AND OPEN ISSUES The main aim, or attempt, of this paper is to determine more precisely, and with more criticism than in the past: 1) the relative quantity of coins issued to pay the mercenaries employed by the Epirote kings and hegemones Alexander the Molossian and Pyrrhus in each year of their Italian and Sicilian wars; 2) the chronology of each issue; 3) the monetary, economic and military impact of their need of coins in determining their moves and their political propaganda also with numismatic iconography; 4) the metrology and change ratio of their silver and gold coins, with central role of the owl “drachmas” and reductions of the coin standard; 5) the probable mints in charge; 6) the iconographic and metrological 583 29abstracts 581(583):Layout 1 13-07-2012 11:56 Pagina 584 Abstracts influences from Epirus in these and others West Greek coinages. But more pre - cise analysis of many little issues and others coinages are still necessaries to im - prove our reconstruction. Keywords: Pyrrhus, Alexander the Molossian, Metrology, Iconography, Coinage. Alessandro Cristofori WORKING ACTIVITIES IN ROMAN EPIRUS AND SOUTHERN ILLYRIA Starting from the recent Corpus des Inscriptions Latines d’Albanie , ed. by Sk - ender Anamali – Hasan Ceka – Élizabeth Deniaux, Rome 2009, the paper ana - lyzes 13 inscriptions concerning working activities in Roman Epirus and South - ern Illyria (mostly Latin; there are only two texts in Greek). Among different work sectors, production is represented by an aurifex and by a guild of fabri tignuarii . Only a short inscription concerns trade and transport, a text from Dyrrachium that mentions the saccarii (porters) setting up an epitaph to Lupus, may be a mensor frumentarius . More evidence concerns services, as for the nu - trix Fortunata, the praeco (herald) L. Novellius Lucifer; an incomplete and quite puzzling inscription from Buthrotum gives us a glance into the local bureaucracy, mentioning a scriba and a librarius , together with a lapidarius and a scalptor , in charge of cutting on stone the acts compiled by the first two officers; a junior of - ficer of the financial administration, an adiutor a rationibus , is also known in Buthrotum ; to a higher administrative level belongs, on the other end, a decuri - alis lictor , a member of the decuriae of lictors in Rome or in the office of the provincial governor; as for shows, from Dyrrachium and Apollonia comes a cou - ple of inscriptions mentioning gladiatorial games organized by members of the lo - cal elite. Liberal arts are witnessed by four physicians; among them noteworthy is a specialist of eye diseases (medicus ocularius) . In conclusion the paper high - lights the main features emerging from the evidence of Roman Epirus and South - ern Illyria, in comparison with the general problem of occupational inscriptions in the Roman world. Keywords: Epigraphy, Jobs, Economy, Epirus, Southern Illyria. Adele D’Alessandro THE BOARD OF HIEROMNAMONES IN THE AGE OF ALEXANDER THE MOLOSSIAN: THE COMPLEX BALANCE BETWEEN ETHNE AND BASILEUS IN ANCIENT EPIRUS The aim of this paper is the examination of the figure and the role of the board of hieromnamones in Epirus, either in terms of chronological placement and political powers, or regarding the variation in the name of the board itself, whose members 584 29abstracts 581(583):Layout 1 13-07-2012 11:56 Pagina 585 Abstracts had been previously designated with the names of damiourgoi and synarchontes . Starting from the inscription published by Evangelidis in 1935, attesting the pres - ence, inside the koinon of Molossians, of a group of representatives from the ethne , called hieromnamones , we first discuss the different datings proposed by scholars to conclude that the more reliable, for paleographic features and for historical events that may be associated with it, is during the reign of Alexander Molossus, some years before 330 BC. We also analyze the tasks of hieromnemones else - where in Greece, Magna Graecia and Sicily in order to capture, from epigraphic and literary sources, the distinctive features of the Epirotic structure. This institu - tion, which undoubtedly is the most original and interesting of Molossian koinon , has assumed various names and number, depending on the different historical pe - riods. This study tries to determine whether the change of name can be linked to contemporary political changes, and if, in particular, this can be supposed for the group of hieromnamones , which reveals the complex balance of powers between ethne and Basileus during the reign of Alexander Molossus. Keywords: Hieromnamones, Koinon, Federal assembly, Molossians, Epirus. Lucia D’Amore INSTITUTIONS AND SOCIETY IN HELLENISTIC RHEGION : COMPARISONS AND ANALOGIES WITH SOME POLEIS OF THE CORINTHIAN COLONIZATION From the time of its foundation, through the age of tyranny, and even through the Classical period, the Chalcidian colony of Rhegion has always gravitated in the or - bit of Sicily, showing a real political, social and cultural similarity with the poleis of Eastern Sicily. This is particularly evident in the Hellenistic age, when the con - nections became even tighter, especially in the area of Syracuse, after the re-foun - dation by Dionysius the Younger. This hypothesis is supported by the analysis of the dialect, vocabulary, and onomastics of the epigraphical evidence of Rhegion combined with literary evidence and in comparison with documents from other Corinthian colonies in Sicily and in North-Western Greece. Close examination of this evidence reveals precise parallels between the public institutions of Rhegion and those of other Corinthian colonies. The historical picture which emerges from the analysis of the sources on Rhegion in the Hellenistic age is one of an ancient Sicilian city in Magna Graecia. This city is part of the cultural, institutional and linguistic κοινή . During the Hellenistic period, it played an important role in com - mercial interaction with the Corinthian colonies on the Eastern Adriatic coast, with Corcyra, and with Syracuse and its area of epikrateia . Keywords: Greek colonies, Hellenistic age, Epigraphical evidence, Public institu - tions, Cultural koinè. 585 29abstracts 581(583):Layout 1 13-07-2012 11:56 Pagina 586 Abstracts Lavinio Del Monaco FROM CORCYRA TO SYRACUSE: CIVIC REGISTRATION CRITERIA OF CORINTHIAN MATRIX The public organization of Corcyra is based on two distinct systems with probably different functions, in use from the Archaic to the Hellenistic period: on the one hand it is attested the phyle of Hylleis , one of the three Dorian traditional phylai , on the other hand the citizens are named by a large dossier of inscriptions into two civic units, one written in full and the other by an ordinal number. The civic units marked with the names, which have comparisons in Apollonia, are generally iden - tified with the phylai , whereas those expressed by an ordinal number could be identified with phratriai on the basis of a comparison with the tiles from the tem - ple of Athena at Camarina in Sicily. In any case, the public organization of Cor - cyra reflects a Corinthian system and must be studied in a broad perspective which shows the interrelationships between North-Western Greece and Sicily. Keywords: Phyle , Phratria , Symbolon, Ordinal number, Abbreviation. Sandro De Maria ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE CITY IN ANCIENT CHAONIA. NEW DATA FROM THE EXCAVATIONS IN PHOINIKE The northernmost region of ancient Epirus was not characterized by a highly de - veloped urban civilization. Historical sources as well as archaeological and topo - graphic research attest an essentially kata komas occupation of the territory, hav - ing basically only two developed urban centres: Antigonea in the Drinos river val - ley and Phoinike , that overlooks the Bistrica and Kalasa river valleys. Butrint – the other urban stronghold of the region – is more closely linked both historically and territorially to Corinth and Corcyra, rather than to Chaonia or Thesprotia. Excavations in Phoinike resumed intensively in the year 2000 (project of the Uni - versity of Bologna and the Albanian Institute of Archaeology in Tirana) have now brought to light new data on the formation of the city, its urban and monumental development and its relationship with the territory. The urban plan followed the top of a long, narrow hill, with zones of terraces slop - ing to the south-west, and particularly scenographic structures, such as the Hel - lenistic residential area and theatre, built in a hollow facing the southern plain and lake of Butrint. The question of its genesis is linked to the emergence of a ruling urban centre in the territory, undoubtedly around the mid-fourth century BC, while the main development dates to the third century. At that time the main part of the city walls, the first phase of the theatre, the agora with its temple in antis , the Hellenistic residential quarter, with an important two floor peristyle house (House of the two peristyles), were all built.